Damn messed up quoting Jay;
"I'd be good with that direction too. Just seems to me either rate of fire, power, speed of arrow (range) needs to be increased. Range would be good to counter the aim-bot NPCs. If there is a nord ranger in the distance, we have to aim straight up to get a rainbow shot to hit them. While they can get a head shot after head shot.
This might seem silly, but what about an alternate firing mechanism to balance that? Like a long distance shot that uses 2x the amount of arrows and takes longer to draw but is a much improved straight shot. That way we'd have to think twice about spamming arrows long distance but it would still remain a possibility."
That's a good suggestion from Jay and probably better that what I'd been thinking. I was going to suggest that say Long Bow and other similar are slow rate of fire but long range and aimable and you’d switch to a comp bow (like Khergit) for close in fighting and for a higher rate of fire.
If you want history, and I’ve read way to much of this stuff, from memory the Mongol Horse archers fired at an incredible rate not equaled until something like WW1 yet retained penetration power because of the composite nature of their bows. But they weren’t snipers.
The x-bow is an entirely different animal of course.
But what Jay said probably makes more sense.
And I second what Kormin said about maybe unmuting Nimeuh in a few days. Your prerogative of course but he is a long time regular player and while I don’t agree with a lot that he said or indeed how he said it, as I said to him, hey, it’s a game, don’t get too excited.
"I'd be good with that direction too. Just seems to me either rate of fire, power, speed of arrow (range) needs to be increased. Range would be good to counter the aim-bot NPCs. If there is a nord ranger in the distance, we have to aim straight up to get a rainbow shot to hit them. While they can get a head shot after head shot.
This might seem silly, but what about an alternate firing mechanism to balance that? Like a long distance shot that uses 2x the amount of arrows and takes longer to draw but is a much improved straight shot. That way we'd have to think twice about spamming arrows long distance but it would still remain a possibility."
That's a good suggestion from Jay and probably better that what I'd been thinking. I was going to suggest that say Long Bow and other similar are slow rate of fire but long range and aimable and you’d switch to a comp bow (like Khergit) for close in fighting and for a higher rate of fire.
If you want history, and I’ve read way to much of this stuff, from memory the Mongol Horse archers fired at an incredible rate not equaled until something like WW1 yet retained penetration power because of the composite nature of their bows. But they weren’t snipers.
The x-bow is an entirely different animal of course.
But what Jay said probably makes more sense.
And I second what Kormin said about maybe unmuting Nimeuh in a few days. Your prerogative of course but he is a long time regular player and while I don’t agree with a lot that he said or indeed how he said it, as I said to him, hey, it’s a game, don’t get too excited.